Crystal River current., 1887-06-18
STATE NEWS.

ness at Julescurg.
Decoration Day was very generally
observed throughout the State.
The streams around Aspen are to
be stocked with $50 900 brook trout
A new postoffice has been estab-
lished at Burlington, in Ebert county.
The elevator at Berthoud handled
over 200, 90 bushels of wheat last year.
The State Sunday School convention
will meet in Greeley June 81, % and 90.
The State school fund has been
great gamer by the recent rise in real
estate.
DIR. Clark. the Denver abortionist,
has been sentenced to one year in the peni-
tentiay.
The ladies of Christ Church in AS
pen held fair last week which netted
them 400.
The value of the gold and silver pur-
chased at the Denver mint during May was
1916, 6s451.
The Denver base ball club is rapidly
sinking to the foot of the list in the West
ern League.
The Alamosa and Del Norte teams
are to play series of three games of ball
for $50 a side.
Judge J. S. Emery delivered the
baccalanreate address at the Stale Univer-
sity last Sunday.
A cut of about 60 per cent. has been
made in the freight rates between Denver
and Fort Collins.
Three workmen were horribly mutt
lated by an explosion in charcoal kiln
near Malta few days ago.
A mountain lion, nine feet in length,
was killed on the ranch of Joseph Murray,
near Fort Collins. recently.
Mrs. Langtry will be at the Tabor
Grand Opera House, Denver, for three
nights commencing Monday, June 6.
Evangelist Coates says the churches
of Denver need ten pounds of dynamite
put under each of them and touched off.
The Board of Regents have appro-
priated s., 500 for the purpose of identifying
the grounds around the State University.
The season at Manitou has opened
with an indication that more visitors will
visit that resort this year than ever before.
There are said to be 500 prairie
schooners west of Garden City, Kansas, all
bound for Southern and Western Colorado
The purchase of the site for the Den
yer military post has been perfected End it
is thought that work will be commenced at
once.
Floods in the Huerfano and Cucha-
ras rivers have destroyed number of
bridges, washed a way roads and damaged
growing crops.
A number of extensive washouts on
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee railroad
in the southern part of the State have great
ly delayed travel.
The new fish law forbids the catch
ing of trout for sale. You can catch all
you want to eat Gf you know how but fish
ing for market is prohibited.
The side-liners of Aspen are feeling
jubilant on account of victory in the
courts over the apex theory in the case of
the Ruby VS.. the Percy mine.
The railroads have agreedto make a
rate of s1s.l5 from the Missouri River to
Denver and return on the occasion of the
Odd Fellows encampment next fall.
OF the 66,ssO,OOO acres of land in
Colorado there has been surveyed 57,7s7,-
40l acres, leaving of public lands and In
dian lands unsurveyed 9,O92, 500 acres.
A Denver ball player who made
home run last Thursday in the game with
he Topeka club had money to the amount
of 1890 thrown to him from the grand
stand.
J. W. South, $40. 900 stallion own
ed in Burlington, Iowa, died in Denver a
few days ago under suspicious circum-
stances. 1t is thought by many that he
was 'doped" to death at the race track.
Orman & Crooke have obtained the
branch from Montrose to Ouray, thirty
miles, and will commence work at once. 1t
is hoped to have trains running into Ouray
by the first of September.
There is movement on foot to offer
reward of $500 for the proof establishing
the guilt of anyone killing fish in Pitkin
County with giant powder. The citizens
who subscribe to the fund for placing $780,
600 trout in the streams around Aspen will
organize an association for this purpose.
James Hull, the proprietor of South
Cheyenne Canon near Colorado Springs,
fell of a stairway in the canon, falling
nearly fifty feet. striking his head at nearly
every bound, and landing in large pool of
water. Strange to say no bones were
broken, though it is feared he sustained in
ternal injuries.
President Hagerman of the Midland
has notified the citizens of Buena Vista by
letter that his company would construct
wagon road fiom the track and build
bridge across the Arkansas River IL the